growing up with seven siblings, running a flower shop, and using dating apps after a 30-year marriage
meet marzieh
meet marzieh
Most days, Marzieh can be spotted at her shop in Paris’s 5th arrondissement, Les Trésors de Perse, where she brings Persian crafts and the beauty of Iranian culture to the French capital. If it’s not too busy, she might be chatting with other local shop owners, sharing tea and cake. When she’s not working, you may see her walking along the Seine if the weather is nice, hopping on her boyfriend’s scooter on the way to a movie or a new museum show, or at the gym, where she strength trains almost every day at 8 am with friends. We spoke to Marizeh about growing up in Iran, being one of eight siblings, and getting signed up for a dating app by her daughter.
“Even after living in France for 35 years, the French don’t allow you to feel French. I can’t live in Iran, and can’t not live in France. The first question that comes to a French person’s head is: where do you come from? But I consider myself just as French as I am Iranian. I tell my children, to take the positive side of both. The good parts of being Iranian and the good parts of being French. There is no reason to do otherwise. We take the good from things to live better, in peace, and always be joyful."
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